Better Days Display
Java data pack listed for Minecraft 1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
Track up to 10,000 survival days with a visual day counter, unique milestone rewards, and surprises on special days in your Minecraft world.
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Better Days Display
A lightweight and configurable survival day counter for Minecraft.
About
Better Days Display is a lightweight survival progression datapack built around a clean and configurable day counter.
Track survived days independently for every player, display progression directly in the action bar and celebrate important milestones with custom titles, effects and selected rewards.
Highlights
- Track survived days independently for every player
- Clean action bar day counter
- Animated new-day display
- Persistent or popup-only display modes
- 34 milestone events from day 1 to day 10,000
- Unique titles and messages for special milestones
- Thematic effects and selected milestone rewards
- One-time milestone progression per player
- Interactive in-game settings menu
- Five configurable display colors
- 2, 5 and 10 second popup durations
- No mods or external dependencies required
Requirements
Minecraft: 1.21 - 1.21.11 & 26.1 - 26.3 Type: Data Pack Dependencies: None
Use the file matching your Minecraft version.
Dedicated packages are available for:
1.21 - 1.21.4 1.21.5 - 1.21.8 1.21.9 - 1.21.11 26.1 - 26.1.2 26.2 26.3
Configuration
Better Days Display includes an interactive in-game settings menu.
Open the settings menu:
/function betterdays:settings/open
Available settings include:
- Enable or disable Better Days Display
- Toggle the permanent day counter
- Toggle the new-day popup
- Toggle the day-change animation
- Enable or disable milestone events
- Choose between White, Gold, Aqua, Green and Red
- Select a 2, 5 or 10 second popup duration
- Reset your personal day progression
Installation
Download the package matching your Minecraft version and place the ZIP directly inside your world's datapacks folder.
Run /reload if the world is already running.
Better Days Display works in vanilla Minecraft, modded worlds and multiplayer servers without requiring a mod loader.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Better Days Display v1.2 MC26.3.zip
- Download size: 1.4 MB
- Download link checked 27 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.